RHEL 10 must have the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) package installed.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-280977 | RHEL-10-200630 | SV-280977r1195366_rule | CCI-002696 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly, and the failure may go unnoticed. Security function is defined as the hardware, software, and/or firmware of the information system responsible for enforcing the system security policy and supporting the isolation of code and data on which the protection is based. Security functionality includes, but is not limited to, establishing system accounts, configuring access authorizations (e.g., permissions, privileges), setting events to be audited, and setting intrusion detection parameters. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2026-03-11 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-280977r1195366_chk)
Verify RHEL 10 has the AIDE package installed with the following command:
$ sudo dnf list --installed aide
Installed Packages
aide.x86_64 0.18.6-8.el10_0.2 @rhel-10-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
If AIDE is not installed, ask the system administrator how file integrity checks are performed on the system.
If no application is installed to perform integrity checks, this is a finding.
If AIDE is installed, determine if it has been initialized with the following command:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --check
If the output is "Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz for reading", this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-85443r1184613_fix)
Configure RHEL 10 so that "AIDE" is installed and initialized, and then perform a manual check.
Install AIDE:
$ sudo dnf -y install aide
Initialize AIDE:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --init
Example output:
Start timestamp: 2025-04-03 10:09:04 -0600 (AIDE 0.16)
AIDE initialized database at /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz
Number of entries: 86833
---------------------------------------------------
The attributes of the (uncompressed) database(s):
---------------------------------------------------
/var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz
MD5 : coZUtPHhoFoeD7+k54fUvQ==
SHA1 : DVpOEMWJwo0uPgrKZAygIUgSxeM=
SHA256 : EQiZH0XNEk001tcDmJa+5STFEjDb4MPE
TGdBJ/uvZKc=
SHA512 : 86KUqw++PZhoPK0SZvT3zuFq9yu9nnPP
toei0nENVELJ1LPurjoMlRig6q69VR8l
+44EwO9eYyy9nnbzQsfG1g==
End timestamp: 2025-04-03 10:09:57 -0600 (run time: 0m 53s)
The new database must be renamed to be read by AIDE:
$ sudo mv /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
Perform a manual check:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --check
Example output:
2025-04-03 10:16:08 -0600 (AIDE 0.16)
AIDE found NO differences between database and filesystem. Looks okay!!
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